Tag: PEN International New Voices Award

15 Dec 2015

The annual PEN International New Voices Award aims to encourage new writing in the more than 104 countries that PEN operates in and provides a much needed space for young and unpublished writers to promote their work. The 2015 winner,...

15 Dec 2015

Carien Smith’s story “Likkewaan”/”Leguan” was nominated by PEN Afrikaans for the 2015 PEN International New Voices Award. PEN South Africa’s nominees were Liam Kruger for “Sarah” and Genna Gardini for “Performance Scale”. Read “Leguan”, translated from Afrikaans by Marius Swart,...

15 Dec 2015

Carien Smith’s story “Likkewaan”/”Leguan” was nominated by PEN Afrikaans for the 2015 PEN International New Voices Award. PEN South Africa’s nominees were Liam Kruger for “Sarah” and Genna Gardini for “Performance Scale”. “Likkewaan” is published in the Nuwe Stories 3...

15 Dec 2015

Liam Kruger’s story “Sarah” was nominated by PEN South Africa for the 2015 PEN International New Voices Award, along with Genna Gardini’s poem “Performance Scale”. PEN Afrikaans nominated Carien Smith and her story “Likkewaan”. Read “Sarah” below and our Q&A...

06 Aug 2015

The shortlist for the 2015 PEN International New Voices Award has been announced. There was one South African on the longlist, Carien Smith nominated by PEN Afrikaans, but she unfortunately wasn’t shortlisted. PEN International New Voices Award 2015 shortlist “Nichts...

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PEN South Africa, founded in 1927, is one of more than 140 Centres of PEN International, which currently operate in over 100 countries. A worldwide, politically non-aligned organisation of writers, PEN International is dedicated to promoting freedom of expression, and encouraging the growth and strengthening of literature. Its foundational text is the PEN Charter, which all Centres and members of PEN must uphold.